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Claude plans in Australia: every tier, compared.

Free, Pro, two sizes of Max, Team and Enterprise — what each costs in Australian dollars with GST, what you get, which ones train on your conversations, and where your data ends up.

By John Walsh-Green & the friendly AI team at Digital Greenhouse Prices checked 1 October 2026 Reference

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About these prices. Everything here was read from Anthropic’s own pricing, help and privacy pages on 1 October 2026, from an Australian internet connection. Plans and models change often, so treat this page as a map and confirm the number on the checkout screen before you buy.

Prices marked A$ are Australian dollars including 10% GST, as Anthropic shows them to Australian visitors. Prices marked US$ are US dollars before tax.

A disclosure, since it is relevant: we use Claude ourselves, and it helped research and draft this page. The figures come from Anthropic’s published pages, not from the model’s memory.

At a glance

Five plans in two families. The personal plans (Free, Pro, Max) belong to one person, and Anthropic may use your conversations for training unless you opt out. The organisation plans (Team, Enterprise) give you a shared workspace, an administrator, and no training on your data by default.

PlanPrice in Australia (inc. GST)BillingBuilt forTrains on your chats?
FreeA$0—Trying it out, occasional useMay, unless you opt out
ProA$34 a month, or A$340 a year (about A$28 a month)Monthly or annualOne person using it dailyMay, unless you opt out
Max 5xA$170 a monthMonthly onlyPeople who work in Claude all dayMay, unless you opt out
Max 20xA$340 a monthMonthly onlyThe heaviest individual usersMay, unless you opt out
TeamStandard seat: A$43 a month, or A$408 a year (A$34 a month)
Premium seat: A$213 a month, or A$2,040 a year (A$170 a month)		Monthly or annualTeams of 2 to 150No
EnterpriseUS$20 per seat a month, plus all usage at API ratesAnnual; 20-seat minimumLarger organisationsNo

Personal plans

One login, one person. None of these has an administrator or shared billing. On all of them Anthropic may use your conversations to train its models unless you opt out, using the Help improve Claude setting under Settings › Privacy.

Claude doesn’t publish message counts. Every plan has a usage allowance that refills on a rolling five-hour cycle, plus a weekly ceiling; the paid plans are described as multiples of each other.

Personal

Free

A$0

No card needed

For trying Claude, and for occasional questions.

  • Chat on the web, desktop and phone, using the Sonnet and Haiku models
  • Web search, file creation, code execution, voice mode
  • Memory, connectors to other apps, and skills
  • Artifacts (documents, pages and small apps Claude builds for you)
  • Up to five projects; incognito chats

Watch for: no Opus or Fable models, no Claude Code, no Research, no Claude Design, Slides or Docs, no Claude in Chrome or Microsoft 365, and no way to pay for extra usage when you hit the limit.

Personal

Pro

A$34 a month, inc. GST

Or A$340 a year (about A$28 a month) · US list price US$20 a month · A$30 a month through the Apple App Store

For one person who uses Claude most working days.

  • Everything in Free, with at least five times the usage
  • The Opus model, and Research for longer investigations
  • Claude Code, the programming agent
  • Claude Design, Slides and Docs
  • Claude in Chrome, and Claude for Microsoft 365 and Outlook
  • Handing off and scheduling multi-step tasks (the feature launched as Cowork)
  • Unlimited projects
  • Usage credits, so you can pay to keep going past your limit

Watch for: the top Fable model isn’t in the allowance — on Pro it is only available by spending usage credits.

Personal

Max (two sizes)

A$170 or A$340 a month, inc. GST

Monthly only, no annual option · US$100 and US$200 · A$199.99 and A$399.99 through the Apple App Store

For people who work with Claude all day and keep hitting Pro’s limits.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Max 5x: five times Pro’s usage per session
  • Max 20x: twenty times Pro’s usage per session
  • The Fable model included, for up to half of your weekly limit
  • Longer responses, early access to new features, and priority when the service is busy

Watch for: still a personal plan — no admin, no single sign-on, and the training setting is yours to manage. Through Apple’s App Store, Max costs noticeably more than on the web.

Team and Enterprise

A shared workspace that the organisation owns. Staff sign in with their work identity, an administrator controls access, and conversations are not used for training by default.

Organisation

Team — Standard seat

A$43 per seat a month, inc. GST

Or A$408 per seat a year (A$34 a month) · US$25 monthly, US$20 annual · 2 to 150 seats

For small and mid-sized teams buying online.

  • Everything a Pro user gets, including Claude Code and Cowork, with 1.25 times Pro’s usage per session
  • Central billing and an admin console
  • Single sign-on, domain verification and just-in-time account creation
  • Admin control over which connectors staff can use
  • Shared projects, organisation-wide skills, search across connected company tools
  • Claude in Slack and Microsoft 365
  • Usage analytics and spend controls
  • No training on your data by default

Watch for: limits are per person, not pooled. As with Pro, the Fable model is only available through usage credits. No SCIM, audit logs or custom retention — those are Enterprise.

Organisation

Team — Premium seat

A$213 per seat a month, inc. GST

Or A$2,040 per seat a year (A$170 a month) · US$125 monthly, US$100 annual · mix freely with Standard seats

For the developers and power users in a team.

  • Everything in a Standard seat
  • Five times a Standard seat’s usage (6.25 times Pro)
  • The Fable model included, for up to half of the weekly limit

Watch for: buy it per person. Most office staff won’t exhaust a Standard seat; someone running Claude Code all day will.

Organisation

Enterprise

US$20 per seat a month, plus usage

Billed annually in US dollars · minimum 20 seats buying online, 50 through Anthropic sales · every message is charged at API rates on top

For larger or heavily regulated organisations.

  • Everything in Team
  • SCIM provisioning, role-based access with custom roles, domain capture
  • Audit logs, a Compliance API and an Analytics API
  • Custom data-retention periods (30 days minimum)
  • IP allow-listing and network-level access control
  • Customer-managed encryption keys
  • A HIPAA-ready option, and a US-only processing option
  • Spending limits set per person and for the organisation

Watch for: the pricing works differently. The seat fee includes no usage — you pay for what people actually use. That removes per-person limits, but it makes the bill variable. Set spend limits before you roll it out.

The differences that matter

Between Pro and Max, the only real difference is how much you can use. The lines that change what the product is sit between the personal plans and the organisation plans.

FreeProMaxTeamEnterprise
Used for training by defaultMay be (opt out)May be (opt out)May be (opt out)NoNo
Usage per sessionBaselineAt least 5× Free5× or 20× ProStandard 1.25× Pro; Premium 6.25× ProNo seat limit; pay per use
ModelsSonnet, HaikuAdds Opus; Fable via creditsAdds Fable in the allowanceStandard as Pro; Premium as MaxAll, metered
Claude CodeNoYesYesYesYes
ResearchNoYesYesYesYes
Claude in Chrome and Microsoft 365NoYesYesYesYes
ProjectsUp to 5UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited, shareableUnlimited, shareable
Pay to go past the limitNoUsage creditsUsage creditsUsage creditsAll usage is metered
Admin console & central billingNoNoNoYesYes
Single sign-onNoNoNoYesYes
SCIM provisioningNoNoNoNoYes
Audit logs / Compliance APINoNoNoNoYes
Custom retention periodsNoNoNoNoYes
Data stored in AustraliaNoNoNoNoNo
Billed in—A$, GST includedA$, GST includedA$, GST includedUS$

Australia: tax, data and compliance

The parts of the fine print that are different, or matter more, when you are buying from here.

Currency and GST

  • Pro, Max and Team are billed in Australian dollars with GST included. Anthropic’s pricing page says so in as many words when viewed from Australia.
  • Enterprise is quoted in US dollars, and API usage is billed in US dollars, so both move with the exchange rate.
  • ABN: you can add a tax ID under Settings › Billing. We could not confirm from Anthropic’s pages whether entering an ABN changes the GST charged, so check your first invoice.
  • App Store prices differ. Subscribing inside the iPhone app is billed by Apple, at Apple’s prices: Pro is A$30 a month there (cheaper than the web), while Max is A$199.99 and A$399.99 (dearer). Business accounts are better bought on the web, where the invoice comes from Anthropic.

Where your data is stored

  • Stored in the United States. Anthropic states that for the Claude apps and its own API, requests may be routed to and processed in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, and that data is stored in the US.
  • There is no Australian residency option on any Claude plan. The only location control Anthropic offers on its own service is “US-only” processing, on Enterprise and the API.
  • The in-country route is through Amazon. Claude models are also sold through Amazon Bedrock in AWS’s Sydney and Melbourne regions, with Australian inference profiles that AWS says keep data within Australia. That is a developer service for building your own tools — it is not the Claude app, and it lags on the newest models (the top Fable model was not available in-country there when we checked).

If you handle personal information, storing or processing it overseas has consequences under the Privacy Act’s cross-border rules (APP 8). Anthropic’s privacy policy names the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as the complaints body for Australians. Whether offshore storage is acceptable for your data is a question for your privacy adviser.

Training and retention

  • Training: on Free, Pro and Max, Anthropic may train on your conversations unless you opt out. Incognito chats are never used. On Team, Enterprise and the API, nothing is used for training by default.
  • The training choice changes how long data is kept. If you allow training, conversations can be kept in de-identified form for up to five years. If you don’t, deleted chats are removed from Anthropic’s systems within 30 days.
  • Feedback and safety flags are exceptions. Conversations you rate, or that are flagged for policy violations, can be kept and used regardless of the setting.
  • Team and Enterprise: chats are kept until someone deletes them, then purged within 30 days. Enterprise administrators can set a shorter automatic retention period (30 days minimum).
  • Zero data retention exists only by approval from Anthropic, for the API and for Claude Code on Enterprise — and Anthropic’s newest top-tier models require 30-day retention regardless.

Certifications and government use

  • Certifications: Anthropic’s trust centre lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 (the AI management standard) and CSA STAR for Team, Enterprise and the API. The HIPAA-ready option is Enterprise and API only.
  • IRAP: Anthropic’s trust centre lists no IRAP assessment for its own products. AWS lists Amazon Bedrock as assessed to PROTECTED; its page doesn’t say whether third-party models such as Claude are inside that scope, so an agency would need to confirm it.
  • Claude for Government is a United States product. There is no Australian equivalent.

Anthropic in Australia

  • Anthropic signed a memorandum of understanding with the Australian Government on 31 March 2026, covering work with Australia’s AI Safety Institute and A$3 million in API credits for ANU, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the Garvan Institute and Curtin University.
  • It opened a Sydney office in April 2026. It has said it is exploring data-centre investment here; nothing has been committed, and none of it changes where your data is stored today.

Education, nonprofit and government plans

Three programs sit outside the standard price list. None publishes an Australian price.

ProgramWhat it isIn Australia?
Claude for EducationInstitution-wide access for universities, at discounted rates, with a learning mode.By enquiry to Anthropic. No price is published and no Australian terms are mentioned.
Claude for NonprofitsTeam seats from US$8 per person a month (two-seat minimum), with eligibility verified by a third party.Offered to US charities “and their international equivalents”. Australia isn’t named; we couldn’t confirm eligibility for Australian charities.
Claude for GovernmentA version for US federal, state and local government.No.

The API, for developers

Separate from every plan above. The API is how software talks to Claude, and it is billed by usage in US dollars, per million “tokens” (word-pieces) sent and received. It is also the rate card an Enterprise plan is charged against.

ModelRoleInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokens
Claude Fable 5.1Most capableUS$10US$50
Claude Opus 5.5Complex workUS$4US$20
Claude Sonnet 5.5Everyday workhorseUS$2US$10
Claude Haiku 4.5Fast and cheapUS$1US$5
  • Batch processing is half price. Prompt caching cuts the cost of repeated context to a fraction of the input rate.
  • No Australian option on Anthropic’s own API: the location setting accepts “global” or “US” only.
  • Through the cloud providers: the same models are sold on Amazon Bedrock (Sydney and Melbourne, with Australian inference profiles), Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. Of the three, only Bedrock offered an Australian-resident deployment when we checked.

What changed in 2026

If your mental picture of Claude is a year old, these are the bits that have moved.

WhenWhat happened
JanuaryClaude Code was added to Team Standard seats. Cowork arrived as a preview.
FebruaryEnterprise became available to buy online, on its current model: one seat type at US$20, plus usage.
MarchMemory was extended to the Free plan. Anthropic signed its MOU with the Australian Government.
AprilCowork left preview. Anthropic opened its Sydney office.
June – JulyThe Fable model family launched, followed by Sonnet 5 and Opus 5. Cowork reached the web and phone apps.
AugustMemory was switched on by default for personal plans (it stays off by default on Team and Enterprise).
SeptemberFable 5.1, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 were released. Anthropic announced that Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude app, and launched Claude Design, Slides and Docs.

Which plan, then?

Our view, for Australian small and mid-sized businesses. It is an opinion, not a specification.

  • Just you, now and then: Free is fine. Decide on the Help improve Claude setting on day one.
  • Just you, most days: Pro. Paying annually (A$340) saves A$68 a year over paying monthly.
  • You keep hitting Pro’s limit: Max 5x. Very few people need 20x, and it can only be bought month to month, so step up when the limit actually bites.
  • Two or more people: Team, on Standard seats. On annual billing a seat works out to A$34 a month — the same as Pro’s monthly price — and you get what a business actually needs: no training by default, an administrator, single sign-on, and the ability to remove someone’s access the day they leave.
  • Developers in that team: give those people Premium seats rather than moving everyone up.
  • Twenty or more people, or you need audit logs and retention rules: Enterprise — but budget for it as a usage bill, not a flat fee, and set spending limits first.
  • A contract that says “data stays in Australia”: no Claude plan meets that today. The route is Claude through AWS in Sydney or Melbourne, which means building or buying a tool on top of it rather than subscribing to an app.

Compare with ChatGPT’s plans and Microsoft Copilot’s plans before deciding — the three are priced differently and the right choice depends on the software your team already lives in.

Sources

All read on 1 October 2026.

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Common questions

How much does Claude cost in Australia?
As checked on 1 October 2026, including GST: Pro is A$34 a month or A$340 a year. Max is A$170 (5x) or A$340 (20x) a month. Team Standard seats are A$43 a month, or A$408 a year on annual billing; Premium seats are A$213 a month, or A$2,040 a year. Enterprise is US$20 per seat a month billed annually, plus usage.
Do the Australian prices include GST?
Yes for Pro, Max and Team bought on the web — Anthropic bills Australians in Australian dollars and its pricing page says prices include 10% GST. Enterprise is quoted in US dollars and the API is billed in US dollars.
Does Claude use my conversations to train its models?
On Free, Pro and Max, it may — unless you opt out with the Help improve Claude setting under Settings › Privacy. On Team, Enterprise and the API, your data is not used for training by default.
Is Claude data stored in Australia?
No. Anthropic says data from the Claude apps and its own API is stored in the United States, though requests may be processed in several regions including Australia. No Claude plan offers Australian data residency. The in-country route is Claude through Amazon Bedrock in Sydney and Melbourne — a developer service, not the Claude app. More detail above.
What’s the difference between Pro and Team?
Pro is personal: one person, nobody administering it, and the training setting is that person’s to manage. Team is a shared workspace for 2 to 150 people with central billing, an administrator, single sign-on and no training on your data by default. On annual billing a Team Standard seat works out to A$34 a month — the same as Pro’s monthly price.
Does Claude Pro include Claude Code?
Yes. Claude Code is included in every paid plan — Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise — but not Free. It draws on the same usage allowance as ordinary chat, so heavy programming use is the usual reason people move to Max or a Premium seat.

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